Iceland

We decided to break our journey to Toronto with three days in Iceland. We've been before as a family a long time ago, however last time we stayed off the beaten track and it was freezing cold.

This time therefore, our primary concern was to explore Reykjavik city and then see what time we had to explore further afield. Here are our adventures summated in a couple of candid snaps:

A curiously named sick bag...

Hallgrimskirkja Church. Here we watched a Bavarian organist:

Inside the clock tower:

And the view from outside, too. Glorious.

The city, with mountains in the background:

The Blue Lagoon:

Árbæjarsafn, an Open Air museum:

An off-the-road and tourist trail, newly geothermically active spot with bubbling mud pools and sulphurous steam blinding us intermittently.

A replica Viking longboat which sailed across the Atlantic in 2000. The museum also had an exhibit that taught us about Icelandic folklore: I like Freyja.

And the icing on the cake: the view of Greenland we had as we flew to Toronto. Spectacular - icebergs and glaciers . . . just there. Remember that I took this photo on my phone from 35,000 ft: I can't even imagine the scale!